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Daniel Buren

1938 - Today

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Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Daniel Buren has received more than 243,558 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Daniel Buren is the 123rd most popular sculptor (down from 112th in 2019), the 2,904th most popular biography from France (down from 2,652nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular French Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Daniel Buren ranks 123 out of 258. Before him are Augustin Pajou, Christian Daniel Rauch, Jules Dalou, Richard Long, Anish Kapoor, and Georg Rafael Donner. After him are Adam Kraft, Bryaxis, Carl Milles, Auguste Clésinger, Nicolas Coustou, and Silvio Gazzaniga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Daniel Buren ranks 199. Before him are Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Liya Akhedzhakova, Lindsay Kemp, Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, and Zbigniew Religa. After him are Evel Knievel, Nieves Navarro, Günter Brus, Chas Chandler, Ove Andersson, and Tatsuya Shiji.

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In France

Among people born in France, Daniel Buren ranks 2,904 out of 6,770. Before him are Ferdinand Zecca (1864), Mirra Alfassa (1878), Alain Corneau (1943), Jack Lang (1939), René Duguay-Trouin (1673), and Guillaume Le Gentil (1725). After him are Petrus Comestor (1100), Lupus Servatus (805), Djibril Cissé (1981), Henri Pélissier (1889), Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698), and Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Daniel Buren ranks 25. Before him are Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876), Antoine Coysevox (1640), Antoine-Louis Barye (1795), Germain Pilon (1525), Augustin Pajou (1730), and Jules Dalou (1838). After him are Auguste Clésinger (1814), Nicolas Coustou (1658), Henri Laurens (1885), Emmanuel Frémiet (1824), Ligier Richier (1500), and Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763).

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